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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Garber (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Garber. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Garber is located in Clayton County.

To see how the shape of Iowa's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Clayton County: Allamakee, Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Winneshiek, Crawford (WI) & Grant (WI).

Below are the counties that are near Garber. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Garber:

  • Clayton County     (The home county of Garber)
  • Allamakee County
  • Buchanan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Garber, with the one closest to Garber listed first.
    • Lamont
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Aurora
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Aurora is located in Buchanan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 162 people
    • Stanley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Stanley is located in Buchanan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 120 people
    • Winthrop
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Delaware County
  • Dubuque County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Garber, with the one closest to Garber listed first.
    • Luxemburg
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Luxemburg is located in Dubuque County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luxemburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 247 people
    • New Vienna
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Holy Cross
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Holy Cross is located in Dubuque County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Cross
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 370 people
    • Waupeton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Dyersville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Summit Village Dyersville Park
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Balltown
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Old Balltown
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Bankston
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Bankston is located in Dubuque County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bankston
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 27 people
    • Rickardsville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Rickardsville is located in Dubuque County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rickardsville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 179 people
    • Worthington
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Farley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Fayette County
  • Crawford County (WI)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Garber, with the one closest to Garber listed first.
    • Bridgeport
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Prairie du Chien
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Charme
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Charme is located in Crawford County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charme
    • Wauzeka
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Wauzeka is located in Crawford County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wauzeka
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 733 people
  • Grant County (WI)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Garber, with the one closest to Garber listed first.
    • Glen Haven
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cassville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Bagley
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • North Andover
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Wyalusing
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Beetown
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Bloomington
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Bloomington is located in Grant County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 702 people
    • Patch Grove
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Patch Grove is located in Grant County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patch Grove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
    • Mount Hope
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Mount Hope is located in Grant County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hope
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 216 people
    • Millville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lancaster
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Potosi
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Garber, see our County-by-County Page for Garber.

Cemeteries Near Garber ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Garber.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Garber - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Garber covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Garber, with the one closest to Garber listed first.

  • Old Garber Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • St. Michaels Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Mt. Harmony Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Hartshey Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Hansel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Asbury Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Pauls Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Krumm Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Musfeldt Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • King Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Koenig Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (313 more) ...
    • Lewis Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Stock School Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Blanchaine Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

While we didn't find Garber in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Garber.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Garber, with the one closest to Garber listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Garber. See our List of 1890's Communities around Garber.

Newspapers Published in Garber ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 123 newspapers that have been published in the area around Garber.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Garber, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Garber.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Garber:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Garber, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Garber) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.